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National Congress of Working-Class and Peasant Women The 4th National Congress of Working-Class and Peasant Women was held in 1931. Florinda Lazos León, head of the Consultative Body of the Committee and delegate to the state of Aguascalientes, tried to make history in the 1st National Congress of and Peasant Women. She requested the Secretariat for Agriculture to approve the Farm Schools for Women Project. As it is done in primary schools, the aim of farm schools was to teach the most important subjects to these women, so that they would be prepared to work in jobs related to industry or science.

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In 1924-1924 the Governor of Yucatan, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, acknowledged the women's right to participate in the local and state elections. Thanks to that, Elvia Carrillo was the first elected candidate to the Congress of Yucatan, post that carried out for two years. However she had to resign to it because she was being threatened to death.

In Mexico, women's suffrage was legistated in 1953, and women could vote for the first time in 1955. Chiapas was a pioneering territory because this right was acknowledged in 1925, almost thirty years before. The eleventh of May 1925, while César Córdova was still the provisional Governor of Chiapas, women from Chiapas could be part of the Chamber of Deputies in the Local Congress thanks to the eight decree and in the third term.

Florinda Lazos León was wounded by several 'fernandistas' when she promoted women's right to vote. Two years later, she became a congresswoman in The Local Congress of Chiapas, by making an alliance with the south-east socialists. Until 1955 there were only two local congresswomen. Even though changes with the revolutionary model of Carranza and Obregón were recorded, there was a lack of women presence in the public office until 1955.

In 1926, Mr. Facundo López pointed out that for the first time women had acquired political rights and that a women sat on a 'curul' (a seat occupi8ed by a congressman in the Parliment) as a representant of the district of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. It was Florinda Lazos León.

During this period she also worked as a journlaist. In San Cristóbal de las Casas, she also run the ten-year magazine 'La Gleba', trying to achieve with gender equity so that women coud stand out not by being better than men or over them, but in equal terms.